Thursday, May 14, 2015

ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi: “Islam is the religion of war.”

ISIS’ Al-Furqan media today released new audio of an
address by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, with written translations in English,
Russian, Turkish, French and German.[...]
In the speech, Baghdadi calls on “every Muslim in every place to
perform hijrah to the Islamic State or fight in his land, wherever that
may be.”
“Do not think the war that we are waging is the Islamic State’s war
alone. Rather, it is the Muslims’ war altogether. It is the war of every
Muslim in every place, and the Islamic State is merely the spearhead in
this war. It is but the war of the people of faith against the people
of disbelief, so march forth to your war O Muslims,” he says. “March
forth everywhere, for it is an obligation upon every Muslim who is
accountable before Allah. And whoever stays behind or flees, Allah (the
Mighty and Majestic) will be angry with him and will punish him with a
painful torment.”
Baghdadi stresses that “whoever thinks that it is within his capacity
to conciliate with the Jews, Christians, and other disbelievers, and
for them to conciliate with him, such that he coexists with them and
they coexist with him while he is upon his religion and upon tawhīd
(monotheism), then he has belied the explicit statement of his Lord.”“Islam,” he adds, “is the religion of war.”